Friday, March 5, 2010

Undercover tape reveals NYPD has quotas

19 comments:

Anonymous
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Another fat useless piece of shit who took the job to ride around in a car and hook up fat assed dominican chicks.Fire him and hire the guys and gals who already put their asses on the line in the armed forces.Diversity............

It appears like sour grapes on the part of this officer. They hire officers that don't speak Enlish now?

I can show this officer 35 tickets on a 5 minute walk in Elmhurst or Middle Village. Folks like this should not have graduated the Police Academy. I agree with the previous poster - it unfortunate that diversity initiatives do not screen or weed out candidates that are not qualified, it a problem of all diversity hiring - and give all minorities a bad name.

Instead of lazy hiring by the numbers - interview or hire 5 black faces, 2 Chinese and 4 hipanics, minority hiring should be held to the same standards as all candidates; this will insure qualified minority candidates have access and chance to compete and earn opportunity to be considered ultimately as a qualified individual.

Ok the previous 2 posters seem to not understand what the video is showing. The video shows that the NYPD supervisors are ordering their officers to make a certain number of arrests and issue a certain number of summonses per day/week. This is highly unethical.

"I can show this officer 35 tickets on a 5 minute walk in Elmhurst or Middle Village."

-Yeah, I know..and all of them won't look like you.

I have seen this story on several stations and unlike some here I do not excoriate this cop for speaking up.

The NYPD only recently came clean (sorta) about the quotas for parking tickets but this is much more serious.

Issuing tickets or summons is one thing but arresting people, often under false pretenses is a crime.

In case you missed it the whole idea is to simply 'make quota' and we, the taxpayers are the fodder if we are found in the wrong place acting "furtive" -as determined by the officer. Most of these arrests get thrown out without even seeing a judge.

In spite of the stupid responses so-far, I truly hope that none of "youse" guys, nor your kids have to spend a night in jail simply for "looking furtive".

Really this is un-American. If its a police state you want, I can direct you to a few I have visited.

Seriously, you're all barking up the wrong tree.Is the existence of quotas some secret exposed or revelation?

Let's try and understand where all this comes from: the top with the mayor. It all started with Guiliani and continuing today with Bloomberg, raising ticket fines and ordering cops to write more as a back door means to raise revenues. Then with compstat, precinct commanders used increased ticket writing and stop, question and frisks as a way to show what they were doing to address crime spikes. A neat way for the mayor to camoflage his beating people over the head to raise more money for the city.

Increasing ticket output and making index felony crimes go away helps a captain go up the ranks to inspector then to chief.

The rank and file cops are caught in the middle. Between C.O.'s looking to advance their careers and residents who either feel that the cops aren't doing their jobs going after their pet peeves then they're racists who pick on poor minorities for no reason.

And at the top is Bloomberg, counting his money and laughing at us as we squabble and point fingers at everyone else but him and the tweeders.

Issuing summons can have a good effect on quality of life. And quotas are irrelevant, of course they exist, they've existed under every police commissioner since the dawn of a uniformed police force. The whole point is to issue quality summons for clear violations, such as double-parking, as oppossed to have an inspection sticker expired by one day.

While "quotas" may be old news to many of us, I was shocked and sickened to hear that police are being threatened with job loss. The issuance of tickets has long been more of a fundraiser for the city than a way of controlling violations.

Our society has plummeted into a moral abyss. Men like this officer who have the fortitude to say "take this job and shove it" are what America USED to be about.

That's why you read this local blog, to keep tabs on what goes on in your community, to stay aware so there is at least the possibility of change. This blog has often covered incidences of police corruption, especially in regards to unfair arrests and summonses. Why are so many of you suddenly okay with quotas?

Yes, they picked two young black kids as examples- you and I both know black youths are NOT the only ones effected by these practices. Other than being young & black, what is it about them that makes you think they were guilty of a crime? And please don't say "because they were arrested", since we are discussing a story about bogus arrests.

This hurts the community as well as the officers who are part of our community. There is nothing good about this.This officer is brave, and I'm thankful people like him still exist. I just wish everyone in his city would offer their support :/

They're posting that because they are most likely cops. Most of them don't live in the city and when they are done with their shifts, they retire to a town on the south shore and bitch about what animals the people on their patrol are.

Go to a local precinct and request a rde- along.No not the 104 or 109,etc.Try a dump like the 75,73,67,70 ,101 or the 46. It will be an eye opener.Soryy,not mookville,midville,i'm a city resident since birth.

It's really NYCish to hire people who can't pass the required tests to do the job!!They don't want to the job, just show them the money. A minority today is the white, green eyed ,blond. Even if this person has the education,training and was firefighter of the year 2009 in their old home town.A dream since 3yrs old,reaching out & always wanting to help. They attended firefighter school. Never realizing hiring in NY is done by quotas. Too bad your quotas will probably eliminate this person and most of the other people like them. Be Careful what you wish for..

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